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See-Through Pontiacs and Big Mac's Packard

Posted November 10, 2008 10:00 AM by dstrohl

No, that 1939 Pontiac isn't a trick, an optical illusion. It's genuinely see-through, one of two that GM built for the 1939 and 1940 World's Fairs. Or, at least, two that are known to have been built at the time of this article's publication in SIA #34, May-June 1976. And, fitting for that bicentennial year, the same issue also featured a three-pager on a 1942 Packard Clipper Custom that Douglas MacArthur originally owned and that narrowly escaped a pancake fate multiple times.

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11/11/2008 8:18 AM

Old soldier's cars apparently don't even really fade away! But the "ghost" Pontiacs sure do. Amazing tales of survival.

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